OnionDuke

MITRE ATT&CK: S0052 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: OnionDuke

First seen
2013-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
trojan, spyware, backdoor
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Last IoC activity
2026-06-24 13:45:04
Profile updated
2026-07-07 15:44:14

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications media-and-entertainment

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:de country_code:fr

Context

OnionDuke is malware that was used by APT29 from 2013 to 2015.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules
  • 81 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • OS Credential Dumping (attack-pattern)
  • Endpoint Denial of Service (attack-pattern)
  • One-Way Communication (attack-pattern)
  • Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
  • Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Onionduke_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • secureworks.com — Iron Hemlock (report)
  • f-secure.com — Dukes Whitepaper (report)
  • carbonblack.com — The Dukes Of Moscow (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Onionduke (report)
  • contagiodump.blogspot.com — Onionduke Samples (report)
  • blog.f-secure.com — Podcast Dukes Apt29 (report)
  • f-secure.com — 00002764 (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0052 (report)

External references